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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Rock Ron eighty yard return for Santana.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Moss and Mark Bosley co has won in an over time.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Well, that's a boomer by tresh Way and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Jad has a plot hicked up by Taylor.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Forty seven yard try Cock pret Skins.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Went, that's the last block that he needs and Brian
Mitchell rules for a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Look at any NFL roster today and you'll see a
coach and probably an assistant coach whose sole job is
special teams. There are guys on every NFL squad who
might only play special teams the whole season. Special teams
is its own important, worth the time phase of football.
(00:49):
But it wasn't always that way, and it was one
coaches out of the box thinking that helped change this
part of the game forever. This is Hailtails Stories from
(01:11):
Washington Football History, Episode two. The special team's genius kicking
plays in American football had been around since the beginning
of the twentieth century, but for decades these were considered
an unavoidable space filler in a game. Washington football journalist
(01:34):
Mike Richmond explains.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
They were considered an afterthought in the game, and coaches thought, hey,
you know, let's get these eleven guys on the field
and get it over with. That's basically how they thought
of special teams.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Former All Pro safety and punt returner Eddie Brown, who
played for Washington from nineteen seventy five to nineteen seventy seven,
he vividly remembers the quote unquote old days of specialists
teams in Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
You know, my rookie year, they just they split the
special teams. Of other words, defensive back coach had had
to punt returns, and offensive line coach had kickoff returns.
So it wasn't just one coach that you got to
meet with him just an afterthought.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
But a detail oriented head coach out in Los Angeles
had started to look at this afterthought in a completely
different light. His name was George Allen.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Great when we beat them up to their own game,
y'all hit them. Now, we bring those damn cowboys next show.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
My father wanted to motivate the special teams. The whole
reason for special teams is he thought they were special opportunity.
They normally special teams were all right, we have to
punt the ball or you know, it's just a routine play.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
George Allen's son and the former governor of Virginia, George
Allen Junior, and.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
He wanted to make sure they were prepared, organized, motivated.
They'd have grading of special teams players.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
He put so much emphasis on special teams in practice,
unlike most of his other coaching peers at the time
and previous coaches. So he just turned that game into
a major instrumental facet of football.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
George Allen's passion for this part of the game only
grew when he came to Washington and players took notice
of what was really a never before seen emphasis.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And we worked at former.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Washington punter Mike Bragg, who played for the team from
nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
I mean we had a thirty minute section in the
middle of practice where we would work on punt return,
kickoff or kickoff return, a field goal or field goal block.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
We would go out at that time or listening whatd
hit you it would in a game. There was no
detail too moo.
Speaker 10 (04:01):
And I was with the Detroit Lions for five years.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Former Washington special teams Acephill Mellanchack, a member of the
Burgundy and Gold from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 10 (04:14):
It was great being on the team in Washington because
they make sure that the Special Teams was special.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
For brag Malanchack and almost every single person in Washington.
Allen's arrival came with the first special teams coach they
had seen.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hello, my name is Marv Leavy and I was the
first ever Special Teams coach in Washington. Way back in
nineteen seventy.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Allan had initially lured the future Hall of Fame coach
in Levy to LA.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
George offered me a fifteen hundred dollars raise. Back then
it was something, and I joined him with the LA Rams.
One year later, we were all fired because it had
got in an argument with the owner. We all moved
to Washington, and what a delight it was to work
for George to be there.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Believing that Special Teams had a power to wield. Coach
Allen felt that it was important to treat Special Teams
guys like gamers, and we'd.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Go to training camp and begin to cut the team down.
If we were going to keep four wide receivers, George
would have asked the wide receiver coach, of the guys
out there now, who are the best three and he'd
name the three and then George would turn to me, Mara,
of these other four guys, which one's the best special team,
(05:35):
Which one's the best kicking game?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Guy?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
George showing such a light on the kicking game.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
We had our own nighted broom, We had our little
designated Hall of Fame, and we had our own awards.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
He would go around and you would talk to us,
pull you aside Friday or Saturday before the game, and
after you were done talking with him, he thought, oh
my goodness, he needs he needs us on the special team.
He wants us to do something important.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
That was the kind of care and attention that motivated
Alan to do yet again, what no other coach had
done before, introduced special teams in the tunnel ahead of kickoff.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I never heard of special teams being introduced. So in
Cleveland they were never introduced, and most of the time
we got booed. So we're playing Saint Louis on Monday night.
They introduced us before the game and it got a
standing ovation. I mean, I'm thinking all this, I'm at
(06:46):
the right place.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
And these guys just played out of their minds, played great,
and then the league find my father though, because you're
not supposed to introduce the special teams, he gladly played
paid whatever that find was. Maybe it was one thousand
dollars or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Inspired organized with full faith from their coach, Washington's special
teamers made a difference in nineteen seventy two, after a
season highlighted by five block field goals and four block punts,
this group almost turned the tides of Super Bowl seven
for the Burgundy and Gold.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
A forty two yard attempt by your premier naps that
down to kick his block rolling down the pail and
it pucked up by goal ad by the top a path,
the buck it in the aircraft by bath, forty thirty
five by eight bout a four paint ten five fucked
up bike Bath and the loch in a thankfully games,
(07:46):
get that club on the bard and make it a
new ball game.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Alan saw time and again how his special teams could
influence a game. If a player could contribute with one
very distinct skill, he would make sure to get them
in the right spot at the right time, even if
that player with that one very distinct skill had retired
from football.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
In nineteen seventy six, about three games left in the
seventy sixth season. Malinchick was a commodities broker on Wall
Street at the time.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Coach decided, Okay, we're going to talk Billy out of retirement.
And he called him up and Billy says, you know, Coach,
I made thirty two thousand dollars last week in the
commodities market.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
George, once you we thinks you can help the team,
can you come back? I said sure, can you know?
I couldn't believe it. He said, are you Are you
in shape? And I told I told him, George, I said,
I'm always in shape. And that was on a Wednesday.
And Thursday got on a plane and went back to
the Redskins. And it was interesting because when I got there,
(08:51):
I was standing at the bulletin board and Roy Jefferson
came by and he said, what are you doing. I'm
on the team. He said no. I said yes. He
said no. I said yes. Finally, he couldn't believe that
I was back there on Thursday and we're going to
play on Sunday. That was an exciting team. And thank
(09:14):
goodness I did stay in shape that I could do
what they wanted me to do on the special teams.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
In his third and final game coming out of retirement,
Malanchack does exactly what Alan believed he could do. He
blocks a punt against Dallas. Washington ends up winning.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
But I'm wondering that it was last week he blocked one
of the Dallas punch. Now you were thinking breaking down
the films that they would pay particular attention to.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Where Malincheck lines up.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Today and is so intriguing to listen to Bill Malinchack
tell her of how you blocked a punt. You and
I thought, well, maybe I can change some games, maybe
win some games if I learned how to really block punts.
It goes against all the laws of nature running in
letting a punter kick the ball on your face. I mean,
it's just not natural to go in there and practice.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
That every day.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
And that's really really what I would I set out
to do. I wanted to, you know, become the greatest
punt blocker that ever you know, played the game.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
It was great because the guys that worked on the
Exchange we played the Jets that first game, and I
had all my fellow brokers standing standing at the entryway.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Crie Thrill and who else did George Allen compel to
unretire because of the star power to be brought to
special teams. Mark Moseley still the only kicker to be
named NFL MVP.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And he brought me from nowhere.
Speaker 11 (10:41):
I've been out of football two years. And when he
brought me to the Washington Redskins in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
And.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
The conversation I had with him when he called me
at home, I was in the process. I was actually
working putting putting on inseptic systems around Lake Livingstone and
leasing office space in Houston at the time. And he
asked me. His first question was can you still kick?
And I said, well, yes, sir, I can. And I
had been completely been out of football for two years,
(11:12):
and I said, I've been working out. I'm twenty pounds
heavery year now in his solid muscle. And I said,
I'm ready to come back. I can play. And he said, well,
I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going
to send you a contract, sign it, and i'll see
you back here in July. And I said, well, you're
just going to take my word for that. I'm ready
to come back. And he said, yeah, you just show
up in July and we're going to we're going to
(11:34):
find out then, And sure enough, when I showed up,
they had nine earthered kickers on the roster.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
At the time that I had to beat out.
Speaker 11 (11:40):
But I ended up winning the job that year. But
that was the way he was. I mean, he just
had a knack for finding guys and knowing what it
took to be a good special teams.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Ballplayer, retaining players just for what they could do on
special teams. Special teams, dedicated playbooks, and coaches what may
have been considered Allen specific quirks slowly became a norm
in the league. Coaches, players, clubs all started to value
special teams more special teams.
Speaker 12 (12:14):
It's one of the things that I think kind of
lends everything together.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Santana Moss wide receiver and special teams demon for Washington
from two thousand and five to twenty fourteen.
Speaker 12 (12:25):
I look at special teams as a valuable asset for
any team because if you can score there or be
dominant enough to set your team up to score, and
that's how you can win most of the games. My
impact special team wise led over to me being a
dynamic receiver as well, because it got me started when
I wasn't getting the ball as much as other guys.
(12:46):
I was in real form when I did get the
ball officially because of some of the things I did
well on the special team side.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
To Santana Moss and Moss across the forty with a
pun of the beat down to the thirty down to
the twenty channel Moss for a touchdown.
Speaker 13 (13:02):
It's the people inside the building, the ones that understand
the importance of your job.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Brian Mitchell proof that being a great special teamer could
earn you a serious claim to a gold jacket.
Speaker 13 (13:13):
It ignites the game, it starts the game. It gives
your offense great field position, or I can help the
defense out by making the other team have to start
from a long ways. And if your special team is
not good, I don't think you have a chance in
Hail of win in the two.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It's the last rot that he needs and Brian Mitchell
rules for a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Mitchell from the team Kenny Goud ninety.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
He can't.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Like so many elements of this sport, Special teams has
gone through its fair share of shifts and evolutions over
the years, the biggest of which just might be happening
right now with the new kickoff rule that'll go into
effect in the twenty twenty four season. Yet the spirit
of George Allen the Special Teams mad Man is just
(14:05):
as relevant today as it was in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
You always want to be innovating, You always want to
look at any edge, any advantage that you can get,
And there is that attention to detail, the willingness to adapt,
to innovate, to improve. Just don't be a pack mule
doing things the same old way. Come up with better
ways to improve the opportunity for your team to win.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Let's have more sure.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
This episode was narrated, produced, and researched by me Hannah Liechtenstein,
senior copywriter for the Washington Commanders. It was produced and
edited by Jason Johnson. Executive producers are Ray l and Teen,
Ryan Yoakum, and Kevin Klein. Graphics designed by Roman Schumann
and Rick kim Smith. Social media by Maggie Annchulis and
Rebecca Solzbach. Alumni relations help comes from Tim Hightower and
(15:16):
Caroline Deco. I wanted to plug Mike Richmond's website, Mike
Richmond Journalist dot com. Check out his recent book All
about the Special Team's Genius George Allen a Football Life.
Thank you to our guests for their contributions, and thank
you for listening.
Rock Ron eighty yard return for Santana.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Moss and Mark Bosley co has won in an over time.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Well, that's a boomer by tresh Way and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Jad has a plot hicked up by Taylor.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Forty seven yard try Cock pret Skins.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Went, that's the last block that he needs and Brian
Mitchell rules for a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Look at any NFL roster today and you'll see a
coach and probably an assistant coach whose sole job is
special teams. There are guys on every NFL squad who
might only play special teams the whole season. Special teams
is its own important, worth the time phase of football.
(00:49):
But it wasn't always that way, and it was one
coaches out of the box thinking that helped change this
part of the game forever. This is Hailtails Stories from
(01:11):
Washington Football History, Episode two. The special team's genius kicking
plays in American football had been around since the beginning
of the twentieth century, but for decades these were considered
an unavoidable space filler in a game. Washington football journalist
(01:34):
Mike Richmond explains.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
They were considered an afterthought in the game, and coaches thought, hey,
you know, let's get these eleven guys on the field
and get it over with. That's basically how they thought
of special teams.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Former All Pro safety and punt returner Eddie Brown, who
played for Washington from nineteen seventy five to nineteen seventy seven,
he vividly remembers the quote unquote old days of specialists
teams in Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
You know, my rookie year, they just they split the
special teams. Of other words, defensive back coach had had
to punt returns, and offensive line coach had kickoff returns.
So it wasn't just one coach that you got to
meet with him just an afterthought.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
But a detail oriented head coach out in Los Angeles
had started to look at this afterthought in a completely
different light. His name was George Allen.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Great when we beat them up to their own game,
y'all hit them. Now, we bring those damn cowboys next show.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
My father wanted to motivate the special teams. The whole
reason for special teams is he thought they were special opportunity.
They normally special teams were all right, we have to
punt the ball or you know, it's just a routine play.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
George Allen's son and the former governor of Virginia, George
Allen Junior, and.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
He wanted to make sure they were prepared, organized, motivated.
They'd have grading of special teams players.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
He put so much emphasis on special teams in practice,
unlike most of his other coaching peers at the time
and previous coaches. So he just turned that game into
a major instrumental facet of football.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
George Allen's passion for this part of the game only
grew when he came to Washington and players took notice
of what was really a never before seen emphasis.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And we worked at former.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Washington punter Mike Bragg, who played for the team from
nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
I mean we had a thirty minute section in the
middle of practice where we would work on punt return,
kickoff or kickoff return, a field goal or field goal block.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
We would go out at that time or listening whatd
hit you it would in a game. There was no
detail too moo.
Speaker 10 (04:01):
And I was with the Detroit Lions for five years.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Former Washington special teams Acephill Mellanchack, a member of the
Burgundy and Gold from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 10 (04:14):
It was great being on the team in Washington because
they make sure that the Special Teams was special.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
For brag Malanchack and almost every single person in Washington.
Allen's arrival came with the first special teams coach they
had seen.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hello, my name is Marv Leavy and I was the
first ever Special Teams coach in Washington. Way back in
nineteen seventy.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Allan had initially lured the future Hall of Fame coach
in Levy to LA.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
George offered me a fifteen hundred dollars raise. Back then
it was something, and I joined him with the LA Rams.
One year later, we were all fired because it had
got in an argument with the owner. We all moved
to Washington, and what a delight it was to work
for George to be there.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Believing that Special Teams had a power to wield. Coach
Allen felt that it was important to treat Special Teams
guys like gamers, and we'd.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Go to training camp and begin to cut the team down.
If we were going to keep four wide receivers, George
would have asked the wide receiver coach, of the guys
out there now, who are the best three and he'd
name the three and then George would turn to me, Mara,
of these other four guys, which one's the best special team,
(05:35):
Which one's the best kicking game?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Guy?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
George showing such a light on the kicking game.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
We had our own nighted broom, We had our little
designated Hall of Fame, and we had our own awards.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
He would go around and you would talk to us,
pull you aside Friday or Saturday before the game, and
after you were done talking with him, he thought, oh
my goodness, he needs he needs us on the special team.
He wants us to do something important.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
That was the kind of care and attention that motivated
Alan to do yet again, what no other coach had
done before, introduced special teams in the tunnel ahead of kickoff.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I never heard of special teams being introduced. So in
Cleveland they were never introduced, and most of the time
we got booed. So we're playing Saint Louis on Monday night.
They introduced us before the game and it got a
standing ovation. I mean, I'm thinking all this, I'm at
(06:46):
the right place.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
And these guys just played out of their minds, played great,
and then the league find my father though, because you're
not supposed to introduce the special teams, he gladly played
paid whatever that find was. Maybe it was one thousand
dollars or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Inspired organized with full faith from their coach, Washington's special
teamers made a difference in nineteen seventy two, after a
season highlighted by five block field goals and four block punts,
this group almost turned the tides of Super Bowl seven
for the Burgundy and Gold.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
A forty two yard attempt by your premier naps that
down to kick his block rolling down the pail and
it pucked up by goal ad by the top a path,
the buck it in the aircraft by bath, forty thirty
five by eight bout a four paint ten five fucked
up bike Bath and the loch in a thankfully games,
(07:46):
get that club on the bard and make it a
new ball game.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Alan saw time and again how his special teams could
influence a game. If a player could contribute with one
very distinct skill, he would make sure to get them
in the right spot at the right time, even if
that player with that one very distinct skill had retired
from football.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
In nineteen seventy six, about three games left in the
seventy sixth season. Malinchick was a commodities broker on Wall
Street at the time.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Coach decided, Okay, we're going to talk Billy out of retirement.
And he called him up and Billy says, you know, Coach,
I made thirty two thousand dollars last week in the
commodities market.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
George, once you we thinks you can help the team,
can you come back? I said sure, can you know?
I couldn't believe it. He said, are you Are you
in shape? And I told I told him, George, I said,
I'm always in shape. And that was on a Wednesday.
And Thursday got on a plane and went back to
the Redskins. And it was interesting because when I got there,
(08:51):
I was standing at the bulletin board and Roy Jefferson
came by and he said, what are you doing. I'm
on the team. He said no. I said yes. He
said no. I said yes. Finally, he couldn't believe that
I was back there on Thursday and we're going to
play on Sunday. That was an exciting team. And thank
(09:14):
goodness I did stay in shape that I could do
what they wanted me to do on the special teams.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
In his third and final game coming out of retirement,
Malanchack does exactly what Alan believed he could do. He
blocks a punt against Dallas. Washington ends up winning.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
But I'm wondering that it was last week he blocked one
of the Dallas punch. Now you were thinking breaking down
the films that they would pay particular attention to.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Where Malincheck lines up.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Today and is so intriguing to listen to Bill Malinchack
tell her of how you blocked a punt. You and
I thought, well, maybe I can change some games, maybe
win some games if I learned how to really block punts.
It goes against all the laws of nature running in
letting a punter kick the ball on your face. I mean,
it's just not natural to go in there and practice.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
That every day.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
And that's really really what I would I set out
to do. I wanted to, you know, become the greatest
punt blocker that ever you know, played the game.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
It was great because the guys that worked on the
Exchange we played the Jets that first game, and I
had all my fellow brokers standing standing at the entryway.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Crie Thrill and who else did George Allen compel to
unretire because of the star power to be brought to
special teams. Mark Moseley still the only kicker to be
named NFL MVP.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And he brought me from nowhere.
Speaker 11 (10:41):
I've been out of football two years. And when he
brought me to the Washington Redskins in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
And.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
The conversation I had with him when he called me
at home, I was in the process. I was actually
working putting putting on inseptic systems around Lake Livingstone and
leasing office space in Houston at the time. And he
asked me. His first question was can you still kick?
And I said, well, yes, sir, I can. And I
had been completely been out of football for two years,
(11:12):
and I said, I've been working out. I'm twenty pounds
heavery year now in his solid muscle. And I said,
I'm ready to come back. I can play. And he said, well,
I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going
to send you a contract, sign it, and i'll see
you back here in July. And I said, well, you're
just going to take my word for that. I'm ready
to come back. And he said, yeah, you just show
up in July and we're going to we're going to
(11:34):
find out then, And sure enough, when I showed up,
they had nine earthered kickers on the roster.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
At the time that I had to beat out.
Speaker 11 (11:40):
But I ended up winning the job that year. But
that was the way he was. I mean, he just
had a knack for finding guys and knowing what it
took to be a good special teams.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Ballplayer, retaining players just for what they could do on
special teams. Special teams, dedicated playbooks, and coaches what may
have been considered Allen specific quirks slowly became a norm
in the league. Coaches, players, clubs all started to value
special teams more special teams.
Speaker 12 (12:14):
It's one of the things that I think kind of
lends everything together.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Santana Moss wide receiver and special teams demon for Washington
from two thousand and five to twenty fourteen.
Speaker 12 (12:25):
I look at special teams as a valuable asset for
any team because if you can score there or be
dominant enough to set your team up to score, and
that's how you can win most of the games. My
impact special team wise led over to me being a
dynamic receiver as well, because it got me started when
I wasn't getting the ball as much as other guys.
(12:46):
I was in real form when I did get the
ball officially because of some of the things I did
well on the special team side.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
To Santana Moss and Moss across the forty with a
pun of the beat down to the thirty down to
the twenty channel Moss for a touchdown.
Speaker 13 (13:02):
It's the people inside the building, the ones that understand
the importance of your job.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Brian Mitchell proof that being a great special teamer could
earn you a serious claim to a gold jacket.
Speaker 13 (13:13):
It ignites the game, it starts the game. It gives
your offense great field position, or I can help the
defense out by making the other team have to start
from a long ways. And if your special team is
not good, I don't think you have a chance in
Hail of win in the two.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It's the last rot that he needs and Brian Mitchell
rules for a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Mitchell from the team Kenny Goud ninety.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
He can't.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Like so many elements of this sport, Special teams has
gone through its fair share of shifts and evolutions over
the years, the biggest of which just might be happening
right now with the new kickoff rule that'll go into
effect in the twenty twenty four season. Yet the spirit
of George Allen the Special Teams mad Man is just
(14:05):
as relevant today as it was in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
You always want to be innovating, You always want to
look at any edge, any advantage that you can get,
And there is that attention to detail, the willingness to adapt,
to innovate, to improve. Just don't be a pack mule
doing things the same old way. Come up with better
ways to improve the opportunity for your team to win.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Let's have more sure.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
This episode was narrated, produced, and researched by me Hannah Liechtenstein,
senior copywriter for the Washington Commanders. It was produced and
edited by Jason Johnson. Executive producers are Ray l and Teen,
Ryan Yoakum, and Kevin Klein. Graphics designed by Roman Schumann
and Rick kim Smith. Social media by Maggie Annchulis and
Rebecca Solzbach. Alumni relations help comes from Tim Hightower and
(15:16):
Caroline Deco. I wanted to plug Mike Richmond's website, Mike
Richmond Journalist dot com. Check out his recent book All
about the Special Team's Genius George Allen a Football Life.
Thank you to our guests for their contributions, and thank
you for listening.
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